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#Lifeexplorer #Mindride #GoforplanB

Sara, from Italy, globetrotter and bicycle explorer 🚲 …

Cycling events and tours expert, I cycle to spread and share the slow mobility message through cities, regions and countries.

Bicycles have changed my life, the way I travel but also the way I commute every day. The love of adventure and exploration is what turns my pedals, the passion for an easy and balanced life is what pushed me towards plan B.

You might be wondering why I thought that starting a blog was a good idea for a long term goal. I thought that I should spend my time home to plant the seed for a better life. I know since many years that have more spare time, have a chance to explore more with my bike and meet passioned people would enrich my life. I’m not complaining about what I have, but I aim for a Plan B.

B. Plan B is a way of living, it is a way of thinking, it is how we can be if we choose to slow-down, to reconnect ourselves to the environment. Plan B is having a bicycle to travel and commute whenever we can, because even though people don’t believe so, it can change our state of mind, it can make us to feel more alive!

Plan B. B like bicicletta (bicycle), B like bello (beautiful), B like buono (good), B like be slow and enjoy more.

I'm not sure if that is because of the mountains or the rivers, the trees or the nature that surrounds us in these paths away from traffic. These are the moments in which we live the journey, it doesn't matter where we are going, but it matters where we are and how slowly we can move. Like trees, we grow and move slowly with the wind. We change with the seasons, but we stay routed if we know how to discover who we are. The bicycle leads me to cast my gaze beyond the horizon. Beyond the destination, there is an infinite number of things to discover, the road between departure and arrival is the journey, my bicycle's journey. The beauty is all I can find along my track during my wander about. It is the highest peak in the Black Mountains, The Black Mountains are at the eastern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, it is not a very high mountain but the eco-diversity makes it easy to think that it is a real mountain, the trees are thinning, the vegetation disappears on the top. Paths of mud and swamps, signs that are lost in the, sometimes confused, paths. Nature changes the course of the paths and that of the explorers. Crossing a region along forgotten and old dirt roads is the best way to immerse yourself in it and take home a piece of it. Memories of my winter tour in Cornwall. The shafts and chimneys of the mines are now in ruins. Filling the landscape with grass-clad cliffs and sweeping sea views, it's absolutely stunning. They rise along the paths, among the trees and nature that rebuilds its ecosystem around the red bricks. A century has passed since the closure of the mines, a story that is sought after on the journey of the traveller. Memories of my winter tour in Cornwall, a succession of different landscapes, cliffs and views from the English Channel to the Bristol Channel. The sky, often, covered by dark clouds, a light mist, and the wind. Exactly the colours you would expect for lands so ancient and rich in poetry. #viasilente Day 6: San Giovanni a Piro - Velina (84,9 km + 1470 m) #viasilente Day 5: Sanza - San Giovanni a Piro (62,2 km + 1400 m) #viasilente Day 4: Bellosguardo - Sanza (76,3 km + 1250 m)